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This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism. A yeshiva usually is led by a rabbi with the title "Rosh Yeshiva" (Head of the Yeshiva).
American Jewish writers of the time urged assimilation and integration into the wider American culture, and Jews quickly became part of American life. Approximately 500,000 American Jews (or half of all Jewish males between 18 and 50) fought in World War II, and after the war younger families joined the new trend of suburbanization.
The term "Jewish geography" not only functions as the name of the game, but also describes the unique smallness and closeness of the worldwide Jewish population.The Jewish population's "Jewish geography," therefore, is what makes the game possible and lets Jews from different cities, regions, and countries easily discover people they know in common.
Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete. In particular, it excludes many Jewish-majority cities in Israel. Many of the U.S. cities have their data sourced from the Jewish Data Bank, which records population statistics for service areas that encompass many counties in a metropolitan area. [6]
Jewish-American history by city (25 P) Synagogues in the United States by populated place (19 C) A. ... Jews and Judaism in Charleston, South Carolina (1 C, 4 P)
Jewish American people in politics by state (50 C) American rabbis by state (15 C) A. ... Jews from New York (state) (2 C, 560 P) Jews from North Carolina (1 C, 12 P)
Historic Jewish communities in the United States (1 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Jewish communities in the United States" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
According to Sergio Della Pergola's narrower definition, which count children and adult Jews without religious affiliation only if they have two Jewish parents, this corresponds to 4.8 million Jewish adults and 1.2 million Jewish children in 2020. [30] The American Jewry Project at Brandeis University, which synthesizes survey data from the 50 ...